Watch Ice Cube Say Nice Things Angrily on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’

By

Sarene Leeds

Oct 21, 2014 7:40 am ET

If anyone can turn banal phrases about baby spinach and rainbows into heated declarations, it’s Ice Cube. While appearing on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” to promote his voice role as the Candle Maker in “The Book of Life,” the N.W.A rapper showed off his soft – but still intense – side when once again asked to put his own spin on seemingly innocuous statements like “Thank you for the Crate and Barrel gift card, you always know what to get me.”

A little portentous background music, some dimmed lighting, a sneer in place of sincerity, and a stray “punk” and “broke-ass” here and there, and suddenly Ice Cube has turned a romantic weekend getaway into one fraught with tension, lust and the promise of some fall produce: “Baby, this weekend, it ain’t gonna be nothing but me and you picking apples in Maine – and tapping that ass.”